Janusz Piekałkiewicz (1925 – March 9, 1988) was a Polish underground soldier, historian, writer, as well as a television and cinema director and producer.
At the age of seventeen, Janusz joined the Armia Krajowa (the Home Army), later participated in the Warsaw Uprising, and spent the remainder of the war in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
He then worked as an assistant producer and wrote screenplays for popular science films, which also did not have a chance to be made because of political reasons.
Deciding to emigrate from Poland in 1956, he escaped his homeland by tracing the route used by underground resistance couriers during World War II through the Tatra Mountains.
His 26-episode television serial, "Secret Agents, Spies, and Saboteurs – Famous Undercover Missions of World War II" (Szpiedzy, agenci, żołnierze – tajne jednostki okresu II wojny światowej"), earned first-place (Golden Nymph) at the IX International Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo in 1969.